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As the defense attorney, review testimony and decide if your client is the victim of mistaken identity. Includes links to cited sources and questions to assist in making a decision.
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Details a research project at two universities in Germany on facial attractiveness. Includes why some faces are considered more attractive, average faces, morphing of images, and social perceptions.
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Simple explanation for elementary school students of what it is like to be left-handed. Includes examples of famous lefties.
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Many full texts available online.
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Learn how color affects appetite, vision, and energy conservation. Includes color's relationship to architecture and interior design.
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Examines the relationships between variables in psychological studies. Includes an exercise in which students determine the correlation between two variables and offer possible explanations.
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Scientific information on criminal profiling, violent crimes, criminology, and serial murder.
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Teaches about psychological processes and the nature of thinking via interactive demonstrations, experiments, and video clips.
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Provides synopsis of psychological research from a professor of psychology. Includes whether it really exists, claims of ESP, perception versus pretention, and experiment results.
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Interview with Elizabeth Loftus, a forensic psychologist. Includes what happens to memory in a traumatic event, how juries are affected by eyewitness testimony, and why expert testimony is used in trials.
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Collection of articles for use in an introductory college course. Topics include neuropsychology, sensation and perception, learning and memory, emotion, language, personality, and psychological disorders.
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Explains what this 'Third Force' is, how it originated, and what it's impact is on the field of psychology. Includes methods of inquiry, psychotherapies, and links to additional reading.
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Collection of illusions which demonstrate the differences between visual perception and reality. Includes impossible figures, vases/faces, Poggendorff illusion, and negative afterimages.
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Self-test your unconscious levels of prejudice about age, gender, race, self-esteem, and mathematics vs. art.
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Teaches the difference between objectivity and interpretation in empirical study. Includes an exercise in evaluating and correcting a group of statements.
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Explores the mental picture of one's own physical appearance, and how it is affected by weight, race and culture, cosmetic body modifications, and adornments.
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Learn what it is and how it can be measured. Includes male versus female brains, whether people are born brainy, what emotional intelligence is, and if IQ tests are accurate.
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Brief explanation and example of what happens in the brain when there is interference, also called the Stroop Effect.
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Explains how automatic responses to smells, sounds, and situations develop. Includes Pavlov's dogs, the Skinner box, and behavior modification.
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Offers a test to find out which brain hemisphere is dominant and what that means. Includes logical vs. intuitive, sequential vs. random, and symbolic vs. concrete processing.
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Research paper discusses various studies into what energizes, directs, and sustains human behavior. Includes existence, relatedness, growth, introversion, extroversion, and divergence in theories.
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Explores personal perceptions of the mental ability of various types of minds. Surveys include harm, punishment, soul, liking, destruction, and happiness.
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Five games teach about cognitive psychology. Includes recognition, mnemonics, recall, interference, and short-term memory.
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Information about psychology, what it is and what other children say about it.
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E-text designed for courses in personality theories, addressing psychoanalytic, behavioristic, and humanistic schools of thought, by Dr. C. George Boeree, Psychology Department, Shippensburg University.
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Tells about personality type and provides a questionnaire for parents to use in assessing a kid's personality.
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Student-created tutorials relating psychological concepts to a variety of topical issues such as the internet, sports fans, and advertising.
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Simple shockwave animations let students participate in or recreate classic experiments involving factors such as space perception, reaction time, and conditioning.
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Encyclopedia.com article on what the word means.
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Analysis of Erikson's theory on personality development. Includes the seven stages and how one stage grows into the next.
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Explores what prejudice and racism are, how prejudices and stereotypes develop, and why it's important to talk about these issues. Includes ten things you can do.
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An introduction to the psychology of risk-taking behavior, focusing upon the personality profiles associated with high-risk sports and health-risk behaviors.
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Explains what social psychology is and how it is used in research. Includes theories and methods, nature versus nurture, self-needs, belief systems, emotions, and collective behavior.
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Explores the studies of transpersonal and humanistic psychology. Includes Maslow's hierarchy, subjective experience, social forces, brain functions, and the unconscious mind.
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Philip Zimbardo's website about his classic study. Contains a 42 page slideshow with videoclips of the original experiment with Zimbardo's commentary, points for discussion, and links to related sites.
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Read about theories from Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mahler, and Erik Erikson. Includes different stages, phases, and subphases from each theory.
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Explains who Hermann Rorschach was, his method of testing, European methods, and American schools. Includes differences and controversies.
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Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.
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Tests designed to educate the public about the five-factor model of personality. Includes long and short versions, and results for extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience.
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Online book outlining the current state of knowledge and activity. Includes coping and health, personality, intelligence and cognition, sensation and perception, human development, and psychopathology.
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Explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory, from personal experiences to breakthroughs in cognitive science.
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Overview of psychology, personality, emotions, intelligence, and memory. Includes surveys, facts, and features.
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Explores the three stages of love. Includes changes in the brain, how looks and smells affect choices, the science of flirting, and how feelings can be even stronger in teens.
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Offers exercises in viewing problems in unusual, novel, or untypical ways. Includes a list of situations and instructions.
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Presents several videos used in cognition studies and the results of the studies. Includes change blindness and inattention blindness examples.
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Explains what topics are studied, scientific approach, basic and applied research, and career options. Includes educational recommendations and requirements.
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Virtual psychology classroom with topic synopses, disorders, dictionary, online tests, education and career information, news, and internet resources.
